# Line in file

**URL:** <https://forum.ansible.com/t/line-in-file/30758>\
**Category:** Ansible Project\
**Tags:** ubuntu\
**Created:** [July 11, 2019, 2:32pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/line-in-file/30758 "2019-07-11T14:32:19Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
**Page:** 1

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**Author:** ![Jibsan\_Joel\_Rosa\_Toi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5ac83/32.png) [@Jibsan\_Joel\_Rosa\_Toi](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Jibsan_Joel_Rosa_Toi)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2019, 2:32pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/line-in-file/30758/1 "2019-07-11T14:32:19Z")

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Hello to everyone. I have a big problem. I need to add a line text to environment file on Ubuntu. Here is the file content:

PATH=“/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games”

and I want to insert the following lines at the end but in the same line

/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin

/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/bin

So it should look like this

PATH=“/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games:/usr/local/games:/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin:/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/bin”

Please any help with this will be awesome hehehehe.

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**Author:** ![Kunalsing\_Thakur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Kunalsing\_Thakur](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Kunalsing_Thakur)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2019, 2:37pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/line-in-file/30758/2 "2019-07-11T14:37:58Z")

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```auto
name: adding extra path
shell: PATH=$PATH:{{item}}
with_items:
  - /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin
  - /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/bin
 

```

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**Author:** ![Kunalsing\_Thakur](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Kunalsing\_Thakur](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Kunalsing_Thakur)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2019, 2:38pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/line-in-file/30758/3 "2019-07-11T14:38:38Z")

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```auto
missed export
name: adding extra path
shell: PATH=$PATH:{{item}} && export PATH
with_items:
  - /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin
  - /usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/bin

```

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**Author:** ![Jibsan\_Joel\_Rosa\_Toi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b5ac83/32.png) [@Jibsan\_Joel\_Rosa\_Toi](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Jibsan_Joel_Rosa_Toi)\
**Post date:** [July 11, 2019, 3:22pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/line-in-file/30758/4 "2019-07-11T15:22:53Z")

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I already played it but it doesn’t do anything.

Here is the out from the prompt

TASK [ansible-integro-vistualizacion : adding extra path] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*  
changed: [192.168.14.96] =\> (item=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/jre/bin)  
changed: [192.168.14.96] =\> (item=/usr/lib/jvm/java-8-openjdk-amd64/bin)